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December 6, 2013
Local staff working on British aid projects in some of the poorest parts of Africa were being paid ‘lavish’ six-figure salaries, it emerged last night.
Shocked insiders said at least one official working on the £100 million Trademark Southern Africa scheme was being paid more than David Cameron’s annual £142,500 salary.
The revelation came as International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced that the flagship scheme would be axed with immediate effect, after investigators revealed ‘serious concerns’ about financial oversight of the programme.
The project was supposed to help relieve poverty in some of the poorest countries in the world, including Malawi and Namibia. But insiders said officials were receiving ‘lavish’ salaries and failing to follow strict guidelines.
In a statement to MPs yesterday, Miss Greening said the project had also breached strict British rules on links with Zimbabwe by channelling money through the Mugabe regime. She said there were ‘serious errors’ in the way the scheme was designed by the last Labour government.
A source said the extraordinary salaries paid to local staff had been in place since the project started in 2009.
Miss Greening is said to have been ‘very angry’ when the scale of the mismanagement was brought to her attention.
The episode will reinforce concerns that controls on Britain’s £11.2 billion aid budget are too lax.
Tory MP Philip Davies said Miss Greening was right to shut the project down. But he added: ‘It’s a perfect example of how money is being wasted on an industrial scale in the aid budget. The problem is that the budget is increasing so fast they don’t know how to spend it and can’t keep proper tabs on it
